July 2008
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By Lindsay Stordahl on July 10, 2008
I started to teach my mutt the commands “crawl” and “go long” this week. Noticed I said started teaching him these things. While teaching my mutt, I have learned it is best to teach in very, very basic steps. By breaking the training into the simplest steps possible, my mutt begins to understand. I am [...]
Posted in Dog training | Tagged Ace |
By Lindsay Stordahl on July 8, 2008
I come from a family of dog lovers – my mom, dad and two brothers are all crazy about dogs like me. But while visiting my family last weekend, I realized that nondoglovers put up with a lot from their family members who do love dogs. Take my grandma, for example, a nondoglover who must [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Memoirs | Tagged Elsie, Sophie |
By Lindsay Stordahl on July 7, 2008
Shock collars are good training tools and are not mean or harmful to a dog as long as they are used properly. Ace actually got a shock last weekend when he tried to follow my brother’s car through the Invisible Fence at my parents’ house. Bad boy! The shock made him turn around and run [...]
Posted in Animal humane issues, Dog products, Dog training |
By Lindsay Stordahl on July 7, 2008
It must’ve taken Ace 100 repetitions to understand bang (play dead), but he finally has it down, pretty much. Seriously, how hard is it to just lie on your side? I don’t know how I could’ve made it any easier for the mutt, but he was slow to pick this one up. I taught him [...]
Posted in Dog training | Tagged Ace |
By Lindsay Stordahl on July 3, 2008
I make the mistake of giving my mutt a command more than once. For example, I tell him to sit more than once if he doesn’t do it right away. It’s usually something like, “Sit…SIT!” And then he sits. What I am doing is training him to sit on the second (or third) command, which [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training | Tagged Ace |
By Lindsay Stordahl on July 1, 2008
Today was my cat Scout’s third birthday. I spend so much time and energy worrying about Ace that Scout doesn’t always get the attention he needs. Is there no cat whisperer because no one understands cats? I do not know or understand nearly as much about cats as I do about dogs, and sometimes I [...]
Posted in Cats | Tagged Beamer, Scout |
